I understand and sympathize with the reasonable needs of a reasonable number of people on a finite continent. All life depends upon other life. But what is happening today, in North America, is not rational use but irrational massacre. Man the Pest, multiplied to the swarming stage, is attacking the remaining forests like a plague of locusts on a field of grain.


The Crooked Wood p. 208 - The Journey Home (1977)

Edward Abbey Quotes

I understand and sympathize with the reasonable needs of a reasonable number of people on a finite continent. All life depends upon other life. But...

I understand and sympathize with the reasonable needs of a reasonable number of people on a finite continent. All life depends upon other life. But...

I understand and sympathize with the reasonable needs of a reasonable number of people on a finite continent. All life depends upon other life. But...

I understand and sympathize with the reasonable needs of a reasonable number of people on a finite continent. All life depends upon other life. But...